McDermott's Case

The first question is whether the claimant was an “employee” under the workmen’s compensation act, which defines the word as meaning “every person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written,” with certain immaterial exceptions. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 152, § 1. The relation of *76employer and employee is the same ^elation that is familiar throughout the law under the name of master and servant, except that to be an employee, as distinguished from a servant generally (Campbell v. Arnold, 219 Mass. 160), one must serve under a contract of hire. Humphrey’s…